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This article is from Edition Nine of The Cynical, our free online magazine. Download the magazine here: ePub version (great for smart phone readers) PDF version ‘The players realise that they have to do this. And they can either hide and not put themselves out there, or you can be brave and do it….

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THIS ARTICLE IS FROM THE 8TH EDITION OF THE CYNICAL, OUR FREE ONLINE MAGAZINE. DOWNLOAD THE CYNICAL HERE: EPUB FORMAT (great for iBooks and other e-readers) PDF FORMAT Frankie Mitchell is the talented Glasgow artist behind the front page illustration of this edition of The Cynical. A big fan of Italian football, she often takes inspiration…

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This article is from the 8th edition of The Cynical, our free online magazine. DOWNLOAD THE CYNICAL HERE: EPUB FORMAT (great for iBooks and other e-readers) PDF FORMAT Against the backdrop of another football extravaganza, the 2018 World Cup in Russia encouraged deeper soul-searching for the sport. Amidst the media frenzy – and…

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This article is from the 8th edition of The Cynical, our free online magazine. DOWNLOAD THE CYNICAL HERE: EPUB FORMAT (great for iBooks and other e-readers) PDF FORMAT In a sport where its supporters have and are still experiencing classism in several forms, Eoin Coyne looks at the grim parallels of modern society…

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Whether top flight teams in Scotland should be allowed to play their colt teams in the lower tiers of the SPFL is the very emotive question that has intensified in recent weeks. Christian Wulff has spoken to two Norwegian football experts to see how a similar system has worked there and what their recommendation for…

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The oldest club in the League of Ireland, Athlone Town, is not having the best of times as of late. The Town has a proud football tradition that stretches all the way back to 1887, and it was the first non-Dublin club to compete in the League of Ireland. The current strife that the club…

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Whether implied or overtly, the opinion of ‘it was all better before’ is never far away from any discussion on modern football. Through the frame of rose-tinted nostalgia, everything to do with football was superior in past, football being destroyed my one horrible modern change after the other. When it comes to European club football,…

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Sunday 8th October 2017, 6.29pm. Slovenia have just scored a second goal, all but ending Scotland’s hopes of qualification for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. I watch the Tartan Army on the television, their hands atop their respective heads in grim acceptance that – once again – their national team will fail to…